Designing Our Future Daniel M. French, Ed.D. Secretary of Education - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Designing Our Future

Daniel M. French, Ed.D. Secretary of Education

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The System is Too Complex

• 1. Vermont’s education system

is overly complex relative to its scale and number

• f students.
• 2. This complexity is interfering with our

ability to ensure quality and equity across the system.

• 3. This complexity is the chief cause of our

inefficiency.

The System Needs to be Designed

Representative Strategy Design Strategy All stakeholders in process to ensure buy-in Small design team, based on expertise and experience Useful when the solution is already in the repertoire of solutions More useful in creating a new solution End product is consistent with current practice End product is a new prototype which is then shared with stakeholders for feedback and refinement Success is a re-affirmation of common Success is the achievement of the values articulated design elements Typical approach used to create VTED policy New approach necessary to address adaptive challenges

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Process to Date

• Version 1.0 – brainstorming among

cabinet policy team

• Single district used as most extreme

example of a simplified system

• Version 2.0 – includes V 1.0 and

additional content developed by AOE admin team members in response to the prompt:

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To what extent would a GSSD model create opportunities for . .

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Design Elements from Version 1.0

• The system should be flexible

enough to meet the personal learning aspirations of each student.

• The system should be better

integrated with the social service delivery system.

• The system should put an

increased focus on early learning and care.

• The system should put a focus
• n teacher quality.
• The system should support the

use of quality data.

• The system should support a

more efficient and responsive approach to curriculum and professional development.

• The system should support the

broader social and economic development of our state.

• The system should be more

nimble, efficient, and effective.

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Immediate Process Going Forward

• New version will be published as

WordPress blog posts, go live by 4/19

• Submissions being solicited from groups

to embellish overall design, and to cover cradle-to-career vision

• Continue to identify opportunities

through simplification

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Open Questions

• To what extent is “complexity and

simplification” a useful and/or sufficient lens?

• Are the identified opportunities

compelling enough to make a case for the system needing to be designed?

• If so, how to develop design elements that

can address our adaptive challenges?